posted 6 years ago
Don't we need poplar for our beaver boom? So not only will the beavers protect us from rampant wildfires, they will encourage poplar stands that eat greenhouse gases and poop nitrogen gas for the nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the alders to turn into plant food for more poplars?
Beavers truly will geoengineer us out of our climate chaos if we let them.
-CK
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein